Hello! Welcome to my website. I am an Assistant Professor in Operations & Technology at the UCL School of Management. I graduated from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, where I obtained my PhD in Technology and Operations. My research interests are in revenue management and information design. Feel free to contact me at zhenyu[dot]zhangmeng[at]ucl[dot]ac[dot]uk for research collaborations.

Publications

• Hyun-Soo Ahn, Christopher Ryan, Joline Uichanco, Mengzhenyu Zhang, “Valuing influence with social learning”, forthcoming at Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2025. link
• Hyun-Soo Ahn, Christopher Ryan, Joline Uichanco, Mengzhenyu Zhang, “Certainty-equivalent pricing with dependent demand and limited price-changing opportunities”, Mathematics of Operations Research 51(1), 498-541, 2025. link – Spotlight paper at 2019 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Conference
• Hyun-Soo Ahn, Eren Cetinkaya, Izak Duenyas, Mengzhenyu Zhang, “Benefits of collaboration in capacity investment and allocation”, Production and Operations Management 33(1), 128-145, 2024. link
• Mengzhenyu Zhang, Hyun-Soo Ahn, Joline Uichanco, “Data-driven pricing for a new product”, Operations Research 70(2), 847-866, 2022. link

Working papers (ordered by time finished)

• Yiming Liu, Mengzhenyu Zhang, “A Knapsack Structure in Dynamic Information Design”, submitted, 2026. link
• Hyun-Soo Ahn, Mengzhenyu Zhang, Zijin Zhang, “Online decisions with (biased) offline data”, Minor revision at Operations Research, 2025. link
• Izak Duenyas, Ozge Sahin, Mengzhenyu Zhang, “Advance selling under dynamic uncertainty and time-dependent penalty”, reject and resubmit at Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2025. link
• Mengzhenyu Zhang, Fan Zhou, “How much is enough? Strategic information provision under consumer ambiguity”, Major revision at Marketing Science, 2025. link
• Zi Ling, Christopher Ryan, Mengzhenyu Zhang, “On the interplay between pricing and information policies in monopoly selling”, working paper, 2024. link
• Mengzhenyu Zhang, Christopher Ryan, Wei Sun, Shivaram Subramanian, Markus Ettl, “Attribute-based pricing: A nested logit approach”, Major revision at Informs Journal on Computing, 2022. link

Teaching

School of Management, University College London

• Module leader: MSIN0095 Operations Analytics (22 Winter, 23 Winter, 24 Winter, 25 Winter) for MSc Business Analytics
• Module leader: Operations Analytics (26 Summer) for UCL-PKU MBA

Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

• Instructor: TO 302 Operations Management (18 Winter)
• Teaching Assistant:
  • TO 301: Business Statistics and Management Science (16 Fall)
  • TO 502: Business Statistics (17 Fall)
  • TO 618: Applied Business Analytics and Decisions (17 Winter, 17 Fall, 18 Fall, 19 Fall)
  • TO 605: Manufacturing and Supply Operations (17 Winter)
  • TO 899: Inventory Management (PhD course, 18 Fall, 20 Fall)
  • EMBA 603: Business Analytics and Statistics for Executives (18 Fall)
  • TO 567: Data Mining and Business Analytics (19 Winter, 19 Fall)
  • TO 572: Applied Business Forecasting (19 Fall)
  • EMBA 610: Managerial Big Data Analytics (19 Summer, 20 Summer)